Flute Concerto (Loriot)

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Flute Concerto is a sketch by the German humorist Loriot in which the audience prevents the start of a classical concert by moving up to better free seats.

The sketch was produced in 1978 for the sixth episode of the Loriot series, but not broadcast in it. Instead, it was shown in 1983 on Loriot's 60th birthday program, was part of reruns of the second episode of the Loriot series and was also included in the re-cut version of this series from 1997.

plot

The skit in which no word is spoken shows a concert hall . A flautist is on the stage and a pianist is sitting at the grand piano . The first row of the concert hall is almost completely unoccupied. Shortly before the musicians want to start their music performance, the audience changes from the second row to the first. Little by little, under the incredulous looks of the two musicians, the audience from the back rows fills up the vacant seats in the front rows. After this exchange of seats has come to an end, a married couple and a single man appear and want to take their places in the front row. This leads to chaos among the audience, who are now all trying to return to their old seats and thus prevent the concert from starting again.

Production and broadcast

The idea for the sketch came up during Loriot's stay at Schloss Elmau , where he worked on concepts for the Loriot series with the editor Jürgen Breest . When the two of them gave up the seats reserved for them in the front row of a concert in order to continue working, they wondered what would happen to the two seats. The sketch increases a possible occurrence from everyday life into the absurd, a situation typical for Loriot.

The Flute Concerto was the sixth and final episode of the series Loriot provided the Radio Bremen produced. It was recorded in 1978 with the Salamo concert , where a man attends a concert for which he won a ticket in a competition. For the shoot, a concert hall was set up in the studio and staffed with extras . In the flute concert Loriot took on the role of the flutist, Bruno W. Pannek sat at the piano as in the Salamo concert . The late arriving couple played Heinz Meier and Evelyn Hamann , the individual gentleman was Rudolf Kowalski .

In contrast to the Salamo concerto , the flute concerto was not shown in the sixth Loriot episode. On the one hand, the episode would have been too long for one recording, on the other hand, two concert skits would have distracted too much from the coherent story about the Hoppenstedt family. Instead, five years later the sketch was part of Loriot's 60th birthday program , which was also produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast on German television on November 12, 1983 . In this program, the sketch has a length of 2:15 minutes. In the announcement of the sketch, Loriot expressly points out that it has never been shown before.

The flute concerto was also shown in repetitions of Loriot's telescopic sketches , the second installment in the Loriot series. The first broadcast of the episode also showed the cartoon The Mad Baker by the American Ted Petok , a Frankenstein parody dubbed by Loriot and Stefan Lukschy . Repeatedly, the film was replaced by the flute concert and the animated film sketch Der Kunstpfeifer , which was shown in Loriot's first series of cartoon programs in 1972 , in which a man in an interview untruthfully pretends to be able to whistle well. In the version of the flute concerto shown , the chaos is more than a minute and a half long, while in the version from Loriot's 60th birthday it only lasts about 20 seconds. When the flute concerto was first broadcast as part of Loriot's telescopic sketches is unknown.

In the new cut version by Loriot from 1997, which consists of 14 episodes, the flute concert is part of the tenth episode together with the art piper, entitled Vom Jodeln, Flöten, Pfeifen, Fiddeln, von Kisses and Kosakenzipfeln . It aired on June 24, 1997 on First . You can see the version from Loriot's 60th birthday , which has been shortened by a few seconds.

Audio and video carriers

  • Loriot's library. Volume 2: Where are they running? and other upscale lifestyle problems . Warner Home Video, Hamburg 1984, VHS No. 2 (version from Loriot's 60th birthday ).
  • Loriot - His large sketch archive. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2001, DVD No. 3 (as part of Loriot 10 ).
  • Loriot - The complete television edition. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 5 (as part of Loriot's 60th birthday ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany your artists - Loriot (from 0:15:57) on YouTube . Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, pp. 149–150.
  2. ↑ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 268.
  3. ↑ Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, p. 149.
  4. ↑ Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, p. 150.
  5. ↑ Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". The representation of misunderstandings in Loriot's work . ALDA! Der Verlag, Nottuln 2004, ISBN 3-937979-00-X , p. 443 (also dissertation at the University of Münster 2003).
  6. ↑ Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, pp. 70–71. Loriot: "The Chocolate Cake" or "The Night of Living Bread" from "Loriot's Telescopic Sketches" on YouTube .
  7. ↑ Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". The representation of misunderstandings in Loriot's work . ALDA! Der Verlag, Nottuln 2004, ISBN 3-937979-00-X , p. 410 (also dissertation at the University of Münster 2003).
  8. ↑ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 416.